Walking into Amorita Resort’s front desk, I saw the deep blues of the infinity pool ahead, fringed with the greens of frangipani and talisay trees. True to its name, the pool’s waters appeared to merge with the sea’s horizon. Upon closer look, the sea was the waters of Panglao’s Alona Beach below. Amorita, after all, is…
It was quiet, very quiet. All around me dark mahogany trees rose to the sky. I basked in the silence as I walked around and admired thick trunks and roots flowing like tiny rivers. The occasional patches of sunlight breaking through the canopy made the silent forest all the more magical. It was so beautiful…
Before my recent trip to Bohol, I only knew of Jagna as the location of the port in Bohol for boats from Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro (CDO). Now I have come to know Jagna as a place of beautiful beaches and mountains, and of course, delicious calamay made with lots of love. Just a…
I watch as strong, sure arms stir the sweet-smelling, sticky, dark brown mixture in a kawa, a cookware resembling a wok but almost one meter in diameter. The arms belong to a young man named Ruben, who has been preparing calamay (pronounced ka-la-MAhY) almost daily for three years now. Sweat is trickling down his face,…
Traveling Light 